Love It, Hate It — School using fingerprint scanners for attendance
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A school district in Florida has ditched the traditional “raise your hand if you’re present” approach for school attendance with a new, controversial method — fingerprint scanners.
Months after installing the electronic tracker the school district says attendance is up but some consider the fingerprint scanners an identity theft issue while others just say they’re downright creepy.
Michael Trei, writer at DViCE fumed about the attendance method, ”It seems like a sad commentary if you need to treat students like prisoners to get them to attend.” Others, like Chipley High School superintendent Sandra Cook considers the scanners “one of the most monumental things” the district has ever done.
Do you consider fingerprint scanners recording attendance at school innovative or scary?
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You know what that is sad and degrading to the students that actually attend school and show up instead of ditching.. they shouldnt have to do this if the kids want to ditch its their choice but they will regret it later in life when they cant get a job because they didnt finish highschool or middle school because they ditched to much or dropped out… this is really sad.